Thursday, May 16, 2019

TKC BREAKING NEWS!!! STAFFERS LEAVING KMBZ AMID RATINGS DECLINE!!!

Once again we notice Kansas City legacy media enduring harsh times as technology and listening habits of the public evolve.

To wit . . .

RECENT HIGH-PROFILE EXITS HAVE KANSAS CITY MEDIA INSIDERS CONCERNED ABOUT THE FADING FORTUNES OF KMBZ!!!

To start the week, a cadre of listeners offered protest and conspiracy theories upon the departure of engineer and voice of reason Rod Babcock.

Dana & Parks worked diligently to calm the discontent via social media but nobody bought their excuses.

Then, last night Kara Marxer called it quits citing a cliché intention to spend more time with her family. She was a low-key fave for call-in radio dweebs . . .

The Kara controversy was less pronounced by still had many fans grumbling.

Reality check as BZ fell FAR out of the KC metro top 5 last year:

Terrestrial radio is continually losing listeners as satellite and streaming services now dominate the market.

Diehard defenders of the medium tout the universality of radio and devices for listening still found in nearly every home and car in the nation . . . But the same can be said of paper towels and there really isn't much of an industry or relevance for that product even though they made the Brawny man gay and then turned him into a woman. But I digress . . .

And so . . .

IS KANSAS CITY LISTENING TO THE DEATH RATTLE OF COMMERCIAL NEWS RADIO?!?!?

For a time, talkers dominated the discourse but a few years ago KMBZ ditched the hard right conversation and focused more on boomer humor to bring in better numbers. It seems that decision might have backfired.

Can't say I'm surprised. Bringing in Dana after Shanin quit was a boneheaded move, then giving her editorial decision to harp on prog issues was compounding that problem. Parks has always been a bruh, ready to go along with whatever Dana said or offer up a minor or poorly worded rebuke to the prog ideas. Rod and Kara were great voices but were not on air enough to make me want to listen. The daytime show is terrible too. Haven't listened to those two idiots since that Zac dude left for sunnier pastures, then Jayme let the prog garbo fly. Biggest question: will the PD decide to change direction? Not likely, they've bought into the prog-mind hook line and sinker.

Dana is a kind person and Scott parks is a never trumper, Jeb bush type of guy. There just isn’t much to talk about in Kansas City. Dana refuses to acknowledge the truth of the plaza and worlds of fun issue in Kansas City. Always sidestepping what it actually is.

Johnny Weir has turned his show into Zoo Radio for the evening. Bring in 15 people and talk about anything but politics or local issues. Does Wier talk anything but pop culture or legalizing weed?

Dana Wright is the worst host in the city. She's a low information reporter. She got where she has in TV because of her looks. But once they started to fade, she high tailed it to the radio before she was walked out much like Karen Fuller.

She's an idiot. The reason why the show with Parks has been dumbed down so much is because she's not that bright of a person. I wish she was the one fired with Rod.

Gotta agree. Parks, that booze-addled lefty bitch, got waay more liberal in the last year or so. Must have finally found somebody that would fuck him with his giant head and all.. he strikes me as a weak-willed son of a bitch. Probably got hen-pecked enough by the new woman to turn full on screeching lib. And dont get me started on Dana. Most ignorant, annoying bitch ever in the history of radio. Can't stand listening to that cackling troll.

The blame should be equally placed on both of their incompetent shoulders for turning a once halfway-decent station into horseshit. Looking forward to kmbz cutting them both. It's what they have earned.

I tuned in the other day to Dana and Parks show where they talked about the Plaza. Some of the most frustrating radio I ever heard.

First they spend it felt like an hour doing this dumb game called, "Mix Tape." OK, I guess. Then they finally talk Plaza and Parks asked Wright this question. "Why does this problem only happen on the Plaza and not another movie theatre's around the city.

Wright, in all her wisdom, says, "I don't know. I don't know." She...didn't...know...

Finally, Parks said after being bombarded by texts said they should stop beating around the bush and admit it's urban youths that's the issue on the Plaza. Wright felt uncomfortable and didn't want to answer Parks point. And she never did.

Someone call in and ask Dana directly the connection between the worlds of fun mob, the plaza mobs, and free day at the kc zoo. What is the common denominator? The only way to get her to be truthful is tactics used in medieval England. But that’s how progressives act and think. Deny the truth and embrace identity politics.

Anyone broadcasting and attempting to profit off the likes of Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh & Glenn Beck deserve the same obscurity, ostracization and ultimate loser status reserved for those shows listeners.

Anyone broadcasting and attempting to profit off the likes of Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh & Glenn Beck deserve the same obscurity, ostracization and ultimate loser status reserved for those shows listeners.

What upset listeners, what pissed them off was the fact that Parks' response to Rod's leaving was chirping crickets. When Kara left he was choking back tears (or making a show at doing so). Rod...nada.

We know the drill, you can't say. His contract negotiations didn't get him what he wanted so he walked. Good for him!! But for Parks to say nothing about his Big Man from Texas...that's cold, man.

Dana makes the show, IMO. She's liberal, I'm not. But I like her anyway. Scott is okay, but kind of off-putting how he brags. And I didn't like comments he made about Rod, even in jest, as if Rod were "less than" him. If I tune in and find out Dana is gone that day, I turn it off.

^^^^^^ ThisMeanwhile Wier gave both Kara and Rod an emotional send off on his show. Parks is a hack and has been coasting on the talents of other people his whole career (first Shannon, now Dana). He comes off as a phony and it shows.

Someone earlier complained that Wier's show is nothing but talking about pot legalization and pop-culture. I found that to be unfair. He does talk about pot legalization a fair deal, but that is a pretty big issue in this day and age, and yes he talks more about pop-culture than most shows but I enjoy that as well. I like that he's not pretending to be smarter than he is, and is just a genuinely entertaining guy who focuses on lifestyle issues. That's what is needed at that time of night as far as I'm concerned.

I love all of it...popular to say or not...started listening with Dana and Parks, added Weir, now I listen to the late night Coast to Coast. I'm not old or young, kinda in between. This station has fit every schedule I have worked these last 5 years. Now I get to listen to the morning show. Lighten up gang!!! Gonna miss Rod and Kara!

I love all of it...popular to say or not...started listening with Dana and Parks, added Weir, now I listen to the late night Coast to Coast. I'm not old or young, kinda in between. This station has fit every schedule I have worked these last 5 years. Now I get to listen to the morning show. Lighten up gang!!! Gonna miss Rod and Kara!

parks is acceptable, but leawood lucy his cohort is horrible..she really should be on with the tweedle dee and tweedle dumb show that precees them..the three of them could be the final signoff of kmbz fm..

Rod and Kara indeed will be missed. The afternoon show is a shell of what it used to be and has gone stale. The mid morning show is even worse. It's nothing but a bunch of surveys and worthless drival. I used to listen to the early news show during my drive in to work; but with all of the on air mix-ups, wrong sound bites and awkward ah, ah, ahs; I've shifted back to NPR. The station's programming is obviously struggling.

Maybe they should have Mark Alford on that station just to throw the Trumpers a bone? He's getting long in the tooth for being in Television, in that late morning show on Fox4, he's resorted to sitting there on that couch, pontificating... all manspreading, and trying to show all of Kansas City the bulge in his pants. Watch him! It's true! The problem is, Trumpers are low income listeners, and not a desired demographic, unless your sponsors are tattoo parlors or liquor stores.